EnergyWire headlines — Friday, February 14, 2014 — 8:29 AM

SPOTLIGHT

For almost a year, a utility's plans to build a 50-mile transmission line that would cut a 150-foot-wide swath through the scenic Ozark Mountains has roiled northwest Arkansas. But the dispute over the siting of the $123 million high-voltage line, requested by the region's grid operator to bolster reliability and avoid potential outages, has become supercharged in the weeks since an Arkansas judge selected a route that cuts through neighboring Missouri.